Initial was written th until about 900 in imitation of Latin. This new letter was borrowed from runic alphabet, and written or. On these pages only is used.

w does not occur in Old English manuscripts, but was represented by uu, u. Afterwards it was written with ƿ (wynn), borrowed from runic alphabet. Due to www limitations, w is used here as a notation for ƿ.

Old English verbs were grouped in two major groups: weak verbs and strong verbs. A third group contains some verbs not belonging to neither of those groups.

Weak verbs. Weak verbs form the majority of Old English verbs. They are divided in three classes according to the endings in the preterite.

Strong verbs. The denominative for string verbs were that there was a vowel shift called 'ablaut' in the root of the verb. Due to different vowel shifts, strong verbs were grouped in 6 categories. An additional category were used for reduplicated verbs.